Guitarist Gromus Gromotka especially tends to indulge in overly metallic, fire-spitting guitar solos. This disc finds Red and Bell fronting a German blues band that tends to make up in freneticism what it lacks in subtlety. He’s tended to sink into long periods of apathy, and in recent years health problems have taken a further toll. But Bell has never quite fulfilled his promise, despite his virtuosity and despite his being the first harmonica player in years to come up with original licks (a skittering trill an updating of the old folk “whooping” vocal technique) that have since become part of the standard repertory. Bell was widely touted in the late 60s and 70s as the successor to Little Walter (often by critics who’d grumpily written off Junior Wells for his sacrilegious excursions into funk stylings). Red is joined here by Chicago harpist Carey Bell. He travels constantly through Europe, sometimes playing shows with rockers like Eric Burdon, fusing his searing Delta-style slide with a harmonic and lyric imagination that seldom fails to entertain. In person he’s eccentric: muscular and intense, given to rocking restlessly back and forth in his seat when he’s not performing, he contemplates the world from behind bulging, nervously twitching eyes, always scanning the horizon–for a vision, or maybe an escape.
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Iverson Minter, aka Louisiana Red, is one of the true free spirits of the blues. Even more heartening is a young newcomer who sounds as if he might actually live up to his press releases. Both veterans are established masters reminding us again of what killer guitar blues is really all about. These three discs–two from veterans, one from a Young Turk with fire in the belly–give us reason to rejoice. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.
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